San Diego, CA - United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Norman Paul Felts, a United States citizen who had been living in Mexico, was convicted after a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo of possession of child pornography with a prior sex offense. Felts has been in custody since his arrest by Special Agents with Homeland Security Investigations in June 2013.More...

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United States of America v. Michael Thetford, a/k/a Russ LNU

Sioux Falls, SD - An Alabaster, Alabama, man convicted of Felon in Possession of Firearm, Impersonating a Federal Officer, Interstate Stalking, and Tampering with a Witness, was sentenced on January 6, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. In October of 2014, Thetford was found guilty by a federal jury, following a 5-day trial in Pierre, South Dakota.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Isaiah Dean Trujillo, 24, a member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., was sentenced this morning to eight years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on two counts of involuntary manslaughter. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Chief Kendell Vicenti of the Jicarilla Apache Triba... More...

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United States of America v. Andrew J. Ebert

Cheyenne, WY - Andrew J. Ebert, 27, of Green River, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on January 5, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to
distribute, and to distribute, heroin. Ebert was arrested in Green River, Wyoming. He received 70 months imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.... More...

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United States of America v. Amanda Alcon

Cheyenne, WY - Amanda Alcon, 33, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on January 5, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, methamphetamine. Alcon was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received 78 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special ... More...

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United States of America v. Gerardo Sanchez-Morales

Cheyenne, WY - Gerardo Sanchez-Morales, 29, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on January 7, 2015, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Sanchez-Morales was arrested in Jackson, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment, and is subject to deportation upon re... More...

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United States of America v. Darren Olson

Cheyenne, WY - Darren Olson, 27, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on January 8, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin. Olson was arrested in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He received 41 months imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 sp... More...

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United States of America v. Archie Poole

DENVER, CO – Archie Poole, age 38, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 130 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Denver Division Special Agent... More...

Pena was arrested at the Border Patrol (BP) Checkpoint on US 83 near the 35-mile marker for alien smuggling on Aug. 14, 2014. At that time, Pena had approached the checkpoint in a Ford F-1... More...

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United States of America v. Tyrone Dixon

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Tyrone Dixon, 34, of Florida, appeared yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington following his arrest for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Dixon on conditions pending his next court hearing.

Gallardo was arrested on May 22, 2014, on a criminal complaint charging him with a methamphetamine trafficking charge and being a felon ... More...

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United States of America v. Shelia Villegas

Albequerque, NM - Shelia Villegas, 47, of Manila, Ark., was found guilty on methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking charges after a two-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Acting Special Agent in Charge Tom Hernandez of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas, and Chief Gorden Eden of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD).

[¶1] Jeffrey P. Wyman appeals from a judgment of conviction of perjury
(Class C), 17-A M.R.S. § 451(1)(A) (2014), entered in the trial court
(Anderson, J.) after a jury trial. Jeffrey contends that the trial court abused its
discretion by (1) allowing the State to introduce and comment on his silence
following his arrest for operating under the influence (OUI), (2) allowing a pol... More...

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United States of America v. Bobbie Denis Catton

Seattle, WA - A repeat offender with prior convictions for forgery and identity theft pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. BOBBIE DENISE CATTON, 50, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of stolen mail, one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. When sentenced by U.S. District Judge James L... More...

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United States of America v. Bobbie Denis Catton

Seattle, WA - A repeat offender with prior convictions for forgery and identity theft pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. BOBBIE DENISE CATTON, 50, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of stolen mail, one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. When sentenced by U.S. District Judge James L. Roba... More...

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – On January 6, 2015, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Jonathan Harry Lee Williams of Tallahassee, Florida, charging him with using a minor to produce child pornography and possession of child pornography. Williams, a Leon County School District employee, who worked in the office at Ruediger Elementary School, was arrested on December 11, 2014, after agen... More...

Seattle, WA- The former owner of ‘Sellin Style’ car dealership in Sequim, Washington pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. TIMOTHY P. SMITH, 30, was arrested in February 2014, following a high speed chase that ended after two sets of spike strips were placed on th... More...

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Ryan Butterworth v. United States of America

Ryan Butterworth was convicted
by a jury in 2007 on federal criminal charges arising from his
involvement in a crack-cocaine distribution operation. He
initiated a collateral attack on his sentence after the Supreme
Court, in Alleyne v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2151, 2155 (2013),
held that any fact leading to the imposition of a mandatory minimum
sentence must be found by ... More...

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United States of America v. David Eldon Williams

Bluefield, W.Va. – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that four defendants appeared before Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber in federal court in Bluefield on drug charges.

David Eldon Williams, 56, of Lewisburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using a communication device to facilitate a felony. Williams pleaded guilty in Augu... More...